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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3 : Chapter 1, Chapters 13 & 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.
(a) Yorktown, Indiana.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Monroe, Michigan.
(d) Boston, Massachusettes.

2. What fellow West Point friend did Custer congratulate on his successes in the Confederate artillery?
(a) Gimlet Lea.
(b) Austin Blair.
(c) John Pelham.
(d) George Yates.

3. Why did Crazy Horse most likely not get the scalp of his first human kill?
(a) He did not have a scalping knife.
(b) He found out it was a woman.
(c) He was injured.
(d) He refused to scalp anyone.

4. Who said "fighting for fun is rare"?
(a) General Custer.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General Horace Porter.
(d) Colonel Theodore Lyman.

5. What nickname did Crazy Horse go by as a child?
(a) Chips.
(b) Crazy Horse.
(c) Little Warrior.
(d) Curly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did "Custer get a decent return on the investment of his men's lives"?

2. What position is Custer offered in Chapter 14 that pays $10,000 a year?

3. Who reported buffalo "as far as the eye could reach the country seemed blackened by innumerable herds"?

4. Who did Custer meet on Thanksgiving evening in 1862?

5. Along what trail did the army plan to build a fort in 1866?

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